pigmy

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Pigmy hippopotamuses, red pigmy buffaloes, pigmy elephants, swift little hairy-horned okapi all lurk in the tangled, humid fastness of the Belgian Congo's deep Itura Forest.

From Time Magazine Archive

Since no drying sunshine ever penetrates, the Pigmy Forest is bottomed by a slimy ooze.

From Time Magazine Archive

By way of climax, they skirted the edge of the Great Pigmy Forest, one of the gruesome wonders of the world.

From Time Magazine Archive

Third prize     Red or Yellow Pigmy Pouter, 1904.

From New York at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis 1904 Report of the New York State Commission by Ellis, DeLancey M.

A giantess she seems; but look behind, And then she dwindles to the Pigmy kind.

From Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. by Parton, James